WPF is great in that I should be able to use {StaticResource MyBackground} instead of “White” throughout my app, and then by changing resource definitions redefine the look of my entire application.
Problem is Expression Blend just won’t work if you have references to global resources in a subcontrol. Is there any other way of theme-ing your app? I am not willing to lose Blend designer support, or replicate a piece of code/xaml in every single control. I find it astounding that they have not fixed a bug of this magnitude.
Any ideas?
Cheers
Seems like this bug disappears if you use DynamicResources instead.
Explained here in b): http://blogs.msdn.com/b/unnir/archive/2009/03/31/blend-wpf-and-resource-references.aspx
Someone posted this link in an earlier SO question on the same bug, but for some reason it got no upvotes and was lost below other answers.